While several methods for automatic essay scoring (AES) for the English language have been proposed, systems for other languages are unusual. To this end, we propose in this paper a multi-aspect AES system for Brazilian Portuguese which we apply to a collection of essays, which human experts evaluated according to the five aspects defined by the Brazilian Government for the National High School...

During botanical expeditions between 2010 and 2015, as part of a taxonomic study of Manihot in the Midwest region of Brazil, approximately 500 specimens of the genus were collected. Some of these specimens presented similarities to Manihot irwinii. However, after careful morphological analyses, associated with genetic evidence, we propose here Manihot pulchrifolius as a new species. The new spe...

CEIHC is an acronym that stands for Council for Human-Computer Interaction. This council is composed by members of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and its main goal is to promote the field of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil. In this paper, we detail the missions assigned to the CEIHC and its recent activities. Moreover, challenges for the development of this field and future activitie...

Pest populations of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti Mat.-Ferr. (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) were reduced successfully by the biological control agent Apoanagyrus (Epidinocarsis) lopezi De Santis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa. The economics of the project were evaluated based on data from field trials, socio-economic surveys, published results, and fina...

Colosmittia brasileira sp. n. from São Paulo state, Brazil, is described and illustrated based on a male imago. The genus Colosmittia Andersen & Saether was described based on a single species, C. clavata Andersen & Saether, from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, East Africa. The discovery of the new species shows that Colosmittia has an Afro-Brazilian distribution pattern.

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